Regulators Probe Insurers' Neglect
In Informing Survivors of Benefits

State regulators are investigating whether life-insurance companies for decades have profited by neglecting to alert unsuspecting beneficiaries about death benefits owed to them.

Among the life insurers already under review are MetLife Inc. and Prudential Insurance Co. of America, the nation's two largest, and several companies based in Illinois and the South, officials familiar with the inquiries said, adding that dozens more are...